next membre Membres | Bettina Baumann Bettina Baumann Sägegasse 8 CH-8702 Zollikon ZH eMail: bettina.baumannbluewin.ch Homepage: www.bb-ceramics.com Born in Zurich in 1963, degrees from universities in Switzerland, Great Britain and Australia, since 1997 nationally and internationally solo- and group exhibitions, since 1992 tutor and lecturer in secondary- and tertiary education, various awards and scholarships, for further details see homepage.   Heads, Stoneware, prints, 2007/2008 Inter-Causalities, Stoneware, prints 2005   Impression – Expression, Stoneware, 2007 My work is based on an ongoing fascination for the idea of the vessel-container in a literal as well as figurative sense. I understand the vessel-object as a meeting point between the maker and the perceiver. Both take actively part in the creation of new interpretations and realities. Within the idea of the vessel, I am particularly interested in questions such as the inside and outside, the passage between the two, the organic and constructed, the surface as bearer of influences from both sides and questions of reflection from one vessel-container onto another. The idea of the vessel allows me to explore inner and outer spaces of the human existence which – in the best case – leads to what Graham Gordon called an advanced understanding of the world we inhabit. An article on the subject matter ‚Das Gefäss als Bedeutungsträger, Überlegungen zu einer grundlegenden Form menschlichen Seins’ was recently published in Werkspuren, 2008, SWV (ed.), No. 1, Zurich. Download: 464 KB   Influencies, Stoneware, print, 2005